Category Archives: Pencil

Foxhunt

"Foxhunt, eh? Let's give 'em a run for their money."

“Foxhunt, eh? Let’s give ’em a run for their money.”

Oh dear. Oh dear dear dear dear. Um, we had rented the ‘new’ Star Fox game for Gamecube, and my brother got to the very last level. It was pretty cool. Multiplayer was a bit frustrating when I clearly shot but nothing came out of my gun and then I was KO’d, but it was a good game – good graphics, good music, good voices, better plot than, say, Star Fox 64 (although yes, I know, the point of the game is to fly well, not have a good plot. But SF64 is so hilariously inane!) and fun combat.

So all this rambling doesn’t really tell you how I was inspired to draw Fox McLeod and Krystal back to back with their laser-gun thingies surrounded by the very startled members of a British fox hunt.

…I don’t remember either. So you don’t get to find out. The only thing that turned out half-decent was Fox’s right leg (his right leg. The one on the left). And I used references! Oh well. Maybe I need more practice.

I BEAT KOTOR II! I agree with certain people who I have never met – the ending is lame. What happens to Remote and G0-T0? Did they pick up Exile (Selyn, I called her – Selyn Tekeri)? How did Mira and the droids get there? What happened to the rest of the crew? Who was flying the Ebon Hawk? Shouldn’t all the characters get mini-quests on the final level and then stand together against some great menace? – not Traya; she’s a one-on-one with the hero/ine and I have no arguments there. Am I thinking too dramatically? Will I go download that patch? …Hmm. On visiting the site, that seems like a really good idea. Not today, though. Or tomorrow. Next project is… finishing Lara Croft. Then my model X-wing.

Rana by Moonlight

An eight year old child in the body of a twenty year old woman... and the nightshirt of someone a lot bigger than either

An eight year old child in the body of a twenty year old woman… and the nightshirt of someone a lot bigger than either

Hey there, and Happy Canada Day! Although it’s almost over. I went to a Baroque concert and got a sunburn, but the concert was pretty good. I’m also almost done playing KOTOR II. At last! I’ll be able to waste time on something good!

Uhhhh… or something like that.

This picture I like very very much. Doesn’t she look perfect? Big eyes and looking as if taken by surprise in the middle of the night, with only Naeri her fairy lighting up her young face. This is one picture that I must really apologize for my poor scanning/image manipulating equipment. I don’t have Photoshop of any description on this comp, and I’d like PS 5, but it doesn’t work on this comp because it’s too old. Anyway, I think her legs are too short, but I’m really happy with the rest of it. No real story behind the picture, although I imagine her in the hotel in New Kakariko (Twilight Princess-ish era).

I guess I should get a new Photoshop, but that costs money and I don’t use it except for this and the occasional – very occasional – CG painting. So I’m going to be patient for now. I can be very patient about some things. Like when the Wii came out. I was so patient that they stopped selling FE10 before I even got the console to play it on. I wonder if that will happen with FE11. Probably, although availability won’t be the issue there. I could easily buy both right now if I wanted to. If I didn’t think I should save my money a while longer. Which is rather dumb, because then they’ll stop selling FE11 and it’s the remake of 1 and 3!!! : P

Zela and Flaer kiss

Diagonal kissing? When was that invented?

Diagonal kissing? When was that invented?

Hi! Just putting up a picture before I go waste my brain cells on KOTOR II again. I’m getting close to the end. Um, this picture is… not very good. I mean, it’s better than usual for a picture of people kissing, but it’s of people kissing, and I’m not very good at that. I think. I haven’t tried in a while. Anyway, there is no real story behind this picture. It’s just Zela and Flaer, kissing. Because they do that on occasion. When their children aren’t looking. : )

You know the theme song of Red Dwarf? Of course you know the theme song from Red Dwarf. “I want to lie/shipwrecked and comatose/drinking fresh mango juice…” Anyway, it was written by Howard Goodall. But wait, you say, who the heck is Howard Goodall? Well, one person he is… in the episode of Mr. Bean in which he goes to church and they sing the hymn with all the Alleluias – I’ll look it up later; right now we just call it the Mr. Bean Hymn – and there is an ORGANIST. And the ORGANIST is HOWARD GOODALL. In case you were wondering. He also wrote an interesting book called Musical Big Bangs.

Spiderman and Flairé

*Someone* got hit with a machine gun...

*Someone* got hit with a machine gun…

Uuuuuhhhhhhhh… Not sure what to tell you about this picture. I had just watched Spiderman2, and I liked it, mostly. It had its moments. Soooo…. I think Flairé jumped in front of a machine gun or something – I don’t really remember – and while his armour protected his head and torso, his arms and legs are now useless (in the picture). And Spiderman rescued him.

I don’t know what I was thinking anymore. But it is kind of a funny picture. And Spiderman came out well, and Flairé is wearing his crazy helmet. It doesn’t look so good in this picture, though. And there’s a background.

Flairé’s collapsible helmet

And it even whitens your teeth! ...No.

And it even whitens your teeth! …No.

This is Flairé, and his usually near-invisible (when collapsed) collapsible helmet that became so popular during the second half of the war.

…I totally just made that up, but it’s canon now.

I actually like this design. I will try and keep it if I ever draw it again. And I didn’t make up the part about him wearing the helmet, because I’ve known he wears it all the time – heck, I don’t think he takes it off – but I just made up the part about it being in use during the second half of the war. I didn’t even know the war had halves.

Flairé: It didn’t. Continue reading

Link with a hood

Creepy young man... <o_O>

Creepy young man…

Hmmm… I was trying to practice both cloth and facial structure. I’m not sure I succeeded, since Link looks more like any sullen young Japanese man than, uh, himself, and his ears did something funny to his hood… Not a terrible picture, but not one I’m particularly proud of either.

Flairé + Esgalwen?

Run, kids, run!

Run, kids, run!

This picture would never happen in ‘real life’. Esgalwen lived in Taur-nu-Fuin, Flairé in the Adhemlenei, in Lilemlen. So there’s no way they would be running together, either for fun or on a mission – I can’t tell. And they both seem awfully young; Flairé looks like he’s barely forty years old, Esgalwen perhaps fifteen. Anyway, they both came out decently, and it’s an interesting concept. And perhaps it does now have some sort of basis in ‘reality’, because Esgalwen is travelling under the name ‘Illinia’ in my winter D&D session, which is a kalmaeirin name. So perhaps she did meet Flairé and he gave it to her. Mithlas, on the other hand, still goes by his Sindarin name. So obviously either he didn’t meet Flairé or else Esgalwen/Illinia doesn’t know his kalmaeirin name. Whatever. (Flairé tells me he never met Mithlas, but Esgalwen/Illinia didn’t know that when she met Flairé, and Flairé didn’t know he was supposed to be looking for a Mithlas before he met Esgalwen/Illinia.)

Dwinderling

dwinderling

Crown made of silver sand, ultimately

Ohmigoodness, ohmigoodness, I love this picture. I’m not entirely sure what it means, but it looks like Flaer is being emo and holding a crumbling crown and Zela is holding him but has no comfort to offer other than that. And isn’t Dwinderling a great word?

Okay, sadly that’s all I have to say about this picture right now. Maybe I’ll remember something later. But I do think this is a great picture.